Raging Redbows and Rainstrings

" Well have you ever seen a rainstring before

so colourful it made you want to skip ?

Or tied a redbow on your door

and pretended to be fishing off a big ship ?

then come journey with us into that deep blue sea

where the raging monsters live wild and free

Red strings will keep you safe, draw you up to the sky

where rainbows full of colours soar and fly "

{by Joyce van der Lely and Karen Wright}

  

I haven't been on my blog for a while, just busy, busy with work, not much art time for myself. Busy in a fun way though, don't get me wrong. One large chunk of my time goes into the planned exhibit for my kids art classes arts in July :)

I am organizing this together with Jenny Grant, fellow artist and friend who also teaches kids at her daughter's primary school this term. Stay posted I will keep you updated, or follow the progress on Facebook

to the Square Foot Exhibition

These paintings have gone to the"square foot" exhibition, opening tomorrow. Both have a yummie beeswax toplayer ! For all of you in this neck of the woods, come to Creative Tauranga Gallery downtown :)

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Umbrella series - " Stranded " -12 inch square

Umbrella series - " One Lily in the Pond " - 12 inch square

Minis at Gallery 59

These four little fresco's went to the Minis exhibit in Gallery 59 this week
The photo's I took are very fuzzy, I took them with my celphone. We made floating frames for them which I think is cool ! Fingers crossed I sell them :)

Butterflies

 

Remember the butterflies ? 

I love butterflies and I love the idea of 1.5 million handmade butterflies in one exhibit,

  

too bad I don't live close enough to go visit in person, but I am sure that there will be pictures appearing on line for me to enjoy. Anyway, I thought I'll just repost this as a little reminder for some of you that might have seen this, thought to participate and make one and then put it on the backburner for a bit. The deadline is 31 December and we are quickly getting into that crazy busy mad time of year again.  So here goes....if you want to make a butterfly and send it in to Trudi at Two Dresses Studio, this probably is your last chance just follow my link. Have a fluttering day ♥

Art gives very steady pleasure

Knight Landesman, publisher of ArtForum is in Auckland at the moment, I saw a small interview with him on the news last night. And I just had to share this quote with you. In answering the question if in these difficult (financial) times Art is still important enough for people, he said
"...Yes, because Art can give you very steady pleasure in life..."
and I thought YES ! so true Art Saves, Art Heals and Art does give very steady pleasure each and every day !

Ron Mueck Sculptor Exhibition

Today I went to see the exhibition of a great sculptor named Ron Mueck
The works were just AMAZING !!!!
If this ever gets to a place near you, I strongly recommend you go and see this.
I was really impessed.
I will put a few pics here, but do check out his work it's breathtaking !

Exhibition time

All my babies are at the exhibition...

I only have BOO! here at home still...

"Hope" got a frame, I like her actually...

but it's okay to give her away...

she goes for a good cause

"Hope"

I was asked if I would donate a work for the auction

this Saturday Evening at the exhibition for Haiti

so I made this panel, I called it "Hope"

it's 5.5 x 7.5 inch